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We got tired of managing Claude.md files, so we built something better

We got tired of managing Claude.md files, so we built something better

by bastadanii·Mar 12, 2026·4 points·3 comments
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Auto-generates Claude.md rules from session transcripts when manual maintenance fails.

Strengths
  • •Background agent reviews transcripts to identify recurring confusion patterns automatically
  • •Path-matched rule scoping prevents context window overload from monolithic config files
  • •No registration required, runs locally with npm install
Weaknesses
  • •Only works with Claude Code, not agnostic across AI coding assistants
  • •Context management automation is becoming crowded as AI tooling matures
Target Audience

Teams using Claude Code for software development

Similar To

Cursor Rules · Claude Code .md files · GitHub Copilot instructions

Post Description

We built CodeYam Memory because Claude Code kept making the same mistakes on our codebase. Our claude.md files quickly got stale and maintaining by hand or with Claude wasn’t sufficient.

While digging into this we found that Claude has a native rules system that allowed us to target specific parts of our repo with path matching.

CodeYam Memory uses a background agent to review your coding session transcripts, identifies confusion patterns, and generates targeted rules with proper scoping.

Install: npm install -g @codeyam/codeyam-cli@latest

Then from your project root run: codeyam

This will launch a dashboard with further instructions for initializing CodeYam Memory.

90 sec demo on our own repo: https://youtu.be/oJ2gTb-lxbE

https://codeyam.com/

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